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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] ACPI: introduce acpi_table_parse2()
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Aleksey Makarov
<aleksey.makarov@linaro.org> wrote:
> The function acpi_table_parse() has some problems:
> 1 It can be called only from __init code
> 2 It does not pass any data to the handler
> 3 It just throws out the value returned from the handler

So why are those problems?

> These issues are addressed in this patch

How are they addressed?

Thanks,
Rafael